How to copy Epic link from another ticket on creation

[Gabriel Viger]

Hello everyone!

I was wondering how to copy an Epic link from another ticket (dynamically) on creation of another ticket.

My rule is:

• When: Manual Trigger
• If: issuetype = story
• Then: Create task, link task to trigger issue and (this is where I am stuck), copy epic link from the issue where the rule was triggered.

I tried every option possible but when defining the field epic link in the task creation part of the rule, I don't have the option to copy the epic from the trigger rule.

Thanks for your help!

[mmorales]

FWIW for anyone coming here with this issue, I had noticed the `Epic Link` field to set the value to, but it lists already existing epics. 

Turns out if you start typing you will find several values `Copy from ...`... including `Copy from trigger issue`. 

That's what I needed. 

[Morgan Folsom]

Thanks so much for adding this response! This is exactly what I needed, too. 

[Airbus Driver]

Are you still stuck on this? Can you show a screenshot of your attempt? This is what I tried whilst attempting to get what you wanted;